![]() Anthony’s School, in Threadneedle Street, he was placed, as a boy, in the. Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King’s Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London. The reception of the work has been shaped by this ambivalence audiences have interpreted Utopia both as an excoriation and a defense of communism. Buy it on Amazon Listen via Audible FREE Audible 30 days. Although told primarily from the limited first-person vantage of More (who also appears as a character ), the work is mostly presented as faithful recollection of the words of a character named “Raphael Nonsenso.” In the original text Raphael’s name appears in Greek as “ Hythlodaeus,” meaning “dispenser of nonsense.” For these reasons, it remains unclear whether More is primarily satirizing communist views or capitalist and monarchist views, or both. ![]() The book shifts, for instance, between fictional documentary evidence like poems and letters to More’s recollection of his meeting with Raphael. The complex, multigenre framing allows More to cultivate some distance between his views as an author and the philosophical and political positions espoused in the book. In his study of Thomas Mores 1516 Utopia, Karl Kautsky points out that Mores. ![]() More combines various elements from philosophical dialogues (such as Plato’s Republic) and New World travel literature (such as the pamphlets of Amerigo Vespucci) to frame the discussion. 125See his letter to his brother Stanislaus, dated 1. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Two of the best books on this period are Paul Kendalls. Utopia, Thomas More Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 6 July 1535) published in 1516 in Latin. Utopia describes an ideal island nation from which the novel receives its name. The fate of the utopia as a literary form can be followed in Richard Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1955) J. See the Appendix of Paul Turners translation of Utopia, Harmondsworth, UK, Penguin Books, 1965.
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